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Focusing Sound

OCT 01, 1949

DOI: 10.1063/1.3066266

F. K. Harvey

In his investigations on the scattering of energy from objects small compared to the wavelength, Lord Rayleigh often applied his results interchangeably to sound waves and electromagnetic waves.

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